from The Nation:
A Killing in Kansas By John Nichols
May 31, 2009
Fifteen years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered a "hit list" circulating among militant anti-abortion activists.
The top target for assassination on the list was Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas physician whose Women's Health Care Services clinic in Witchita has been one of only three clinics in the United States that performs late-term abortions in order to end the pregnancies of women who doctors determine would suffer irreparable harm by giving birth.
On Sunday morning, in the lobby of the Reformation Lutheran church in Wichita, Dr. Tiller, an usher who was welcoming people to the house of worship was shot by a gunman who then fled the scene.
The physician, who survived a shooting by a anti-abortion protester in 1993 and whose clinic was bombed and seriously damaged in 1986, died at the scene of the crime.
A 51-year-old suspect was arrested later in the day, although it will take time for all the details of the incident to come out.
But the National Abortion Federation identified Dr. Tiller as the eighth US abortion provider to have been murdered since 1977. According to the group, seventeen others have been targeted with attempted murder. ...........(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090615/nichols_shooting